More Chapters, Less Updates....

i bet youve never played wow.

dont ruin a perfectly fine thread with things you obviously have no knowledge of. if you wish to compare the sizes of wow patches to gw patch sizes and other stuff ill happily debate it thru pms.

I just thought i'd count how often the word 'fixed' was used since April 27th.

37 Times the word Fixed came up. Almost all of those have the words 'a bug' after it. So whats your point? We've had 13 updates since Factions went out. Pretty much everyone has fixed some stupid bug they should've picked up in testing. Obviously you can give them some benefit of the doubt. But in there i also saw the words 'Improved the Chat Filter'...
You know i haven't noticed even a slight difference. I still get filtered when i say something in All then quickly copy something into Trade while people are still spamming away.

My personal favourite was this one 'Added weapons to the Shiro and Jade Armor miniatures.'

They are actually spending time adding weapons to minipets. Come on, if you have that much spare f*cking time, where the hell is the armour update?! Fix things that actually need fixing first, then waste your time on novelty items!

^^^^^ agreed

I played 4 characters to 60 in WoW before I quit. I played on the Argent Dawn server alliance side. My paladin had about 25 days of playing time on it. My hunter had about 20 days playing time on it. My druid and mage each had about 15 days of playing time on them. I had other characters too. That's over 75 days.

In GW my /age returns over 1,800 hours.

Want to still claim I'm not backing up my statements with experience?

what's wrong with the armour? Sorry if it sounds like I've not been paying attention, but if it's in tyria I really haven't been. Factions was a little too small, but if you can't find other things to do outside of a game, or inside for that matter, then you really need to sit down and think. Titles were a great addition to factions, that is going to keep me, and many other people busy. If you find it boring to collect things or challenge yourself, that's fine but I suggest not playing GW if you are pissed because you can't be ran in factions, are too lazy or impatient to deal with titles or you don't find the updates "Fulfilling" enough.

Anet has done a great job imo, they may have messed up a bit with factions, but you'll just have to wait to see what the other team can come up with for chapter 3. It's not P2P so you aren't forced to buy new chapters, if you don't like how they do things then stop playing.

Prophecies was great, and long, but going back to tyria after being in cantha is really odd, hench aren't anywhere near advanced and everything seems old and boring. What I would like to see is some addition to more areas like FoW and UW through the other gods. For now I'll stick to titles while I play.

~Hell

Theres nothing wrong with the majority of the armours. Its just Anet decided to change a few of them for the release.
All Ele armours (since they just sucked) with +10 vs all Elements in it.
Judges and Rogues they took the negative energy bonus off (i think)
Some of the warriors armours, not sure about those though.

They already annoyed enough people by deciding that they'd change some mods, 1. Without telling anyone 2. Without changing existing ones. At the time of that update i had 2 Sundering Bow Strings in storage, 1 day later i sold them to the merchant (not too bothered about them though). My trusty customised Victos Axe/Dragos Bow are useless now too. Gotta buy the lot again, if i wait a few weeks i'm sure i'll be able to grab the new versions at about 20k each, even though i shouldn't have to buy my own weapon again.
If major runes weren't so utterly worthless then there might've been complaints about not modding existing ones too.
Personally i just don't feel like buying my 15k Elementalist armour again just because Anet are useless.

I did give them the benefit of the doubt, but now its 5weeks since Factions was released, still no signs of the armour or storage updates. And just to top things off, they are actually updating the most worthless and pointless things ever as oppose to doing something useful. Honestly, who cares that there Shiro or Jade Armour minipets now have weapons?

Another whine thread?

.-.

they didn't change? 10/10 sundering is exactly as useless as it has always been.

I guess people still haven't realized that Anet and Ncsoft and everyone else involved in GW want to make money. Remember - Anet is a business like everything else, and which do you think is more worth their time? Updating a game, or working on a releasing a new one?

I don't disagree with whats been said in this thread, but its been my opinion for some time that Anet's focus has been on new consumers, rather than repeat buyers. Those who are ignorant of previous chapters may look at Ch.3 and on and think, "Oh that might be fun", Then they end up with the same problems as the rest of us. I am willing to bet that although each chapter is marked as a Stand-alone, those new to the series will be at a disadvantage to those who have bought the previous chapters.

/imo

/agree

man, can't you ppl take a break? From release of factions ppl are whining about the same thing over and over again.

Yes I want my armours to be changed to the new stats, yes I want auction house, yes I want more storage, yes ....

But on the other hand I am so gratefull of having a new chapter every 6 months, that means alot of new content !! even if I have to pay for it.

I can understand that ppl don't like factions because they don't like the system (I love it btw and many others do so to) well if you don't like it maybe chapter 3 will be something for you.

Evilsod, you are complaining because they made mini-pets etc?? MANY ppl love those pets, have a look at what they are selling for, doesn't that mean enough?

Also you talk about Anet not fulfilling your wishes, but you haven't got factions if I am correct, Anet is a bussiness and ppl who don't buy any chapters are not interesting for them.

I don't understand why ppl always need to complain about these little things.. oh well thats life right.

I'm just stepping in to say that this thread is getting dangerously close to breaking out in a flamewar. Please keep it respectful everyone.

Thanks.

Every 6 months..new game..50 bucks..less updates/content..sometimes makes you wanna quit. 6 months is actually pretty quick and you'll be spending loads of cash on expansions with less and less content.

yes it is the little things that count. -)

well, all i can see is complaining on anet all the time, i think they have made a great game, but they could fix more things like:

- auction house
- more options for customizing armors
- better visual effects from the skills, they should really update the visuals for every single skills, except from wards, minions, wells etc all the skills looks boring and makes the combat a lot more boring!

Bold added by me.

Quoted for f*cking truth.

Amen brother!!! Preach it!!

But... the Jade Armor is so... so... [insert appropriate adjective here] with its little beaty stick.

Anyways, some of the updates to the minipets may have been in the pipe for a bit of time, and probably significantly less intensive to implement. I imagine (HOPE) that the auction house system has a few people, 4-7ish working on it over the course of several months, compared to adding swords to Shiro, which probably took Bob the Intern, working through his smoke break, to do.

Oh yes, I have no problem with lots of updates... if they are truly adding something or fixing issures (including nerfs).

Not to mention, that each group of people working on things like bugs / adjustments is broken down into subgroups such as ART DEPARTMENT. I for one would rather an artist didn't try writing code thank you very much. As things get fixed / completed by each subgroup of people, they are then tested. When testing is completed if no problems are found then they are released. If you think you can do better, then by all means APPLY for work there. Here's the webpage with the list of openings.

http://arena.net/jobs/index.html

If on the other hand you have ZERO knowledge of just what is ACTUALLY involved in coding and supporting a rather large and intimidating project such as this one, please quityerbitchin. You are welcome to your opinion on matters, but that's all it is YOUR OPINION, do not treat it is the gods honest truth because more than likely, your opinion is based upon less than steller information backed up by other rumors and straight out lies.

I am mostly disappointed with what A.Net considers "end game" for Factions. They have such amazing ideas, like competitive missions and elite missions, and then somehow they don't meet potential.

Factions was worth $50, but it wasn't worth $50 like Prophecies was. Just adding two more Realms of the Gods would've done it for me, or one more, more complex competitive mission.

Why would the art team be working on giving weapons to the minipets? All the models for minipets and weapons have been made already. Sorry but you're wrong, someone had to code this change, and this time could have been spent doing something more useful.